Pickle Barrel

(Downtown, Chattanooga, TN)

Scooter’s 801st bar, first visited in 2010.

Pickle Barrel, Chattanooga

As we were heading towards downtown I noticed a very cool looking building, so I wanted to check it our before we left. Fortunately B remembered exactly where I had seen it.

This is a wedge-shaped restaurant-bar at an angular intersection, tapering to just a few feet wide at the south end. We entered to find a very old interior and a good side crowd in a small space. The bar proper was to the left in a small back room but there was no room for us in there. However the booth at the “tip” of the place was open so that’s where we settled in.

The old wooden benches in the window both sloped and were lined with cracked and torn leather. Years of messages were written and carved into all the woodwork.

There was a rickety-looking spiral staircase that we didn’t check out. After we left, I looked up and saw that it led to a rooftop deck.

Pickle Barrel, Chattanooga

Pickle Barrel, Chattanooga

Pickle Barrel, Chattanooga

Pickle Barrel, Chattanooga

Pickle Barrel, Chattanooga

Pickle Barrel, Chattanooga


1012 Market St
Chattanooga, TN 37402
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(423) 266-1103

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